Nine Zero Suspense

From the 20th to the 90s of the [-]th century, the south was "the frontier of reform and opening up". It is said that banknotes fly in the air, depending on whether you can catch them.Glittering business opportunities and a large number of workers attract people from the bottom to the high-end to thousands of troops. It is known as "the peacock flies southeast" in history.

In the army going south year after year, there were two girls who were like parallel lines and would never meet. One was Li Xiaoman and the other was Qiao Ruoxi. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1994, they met in the suburb of Xingluo, a small and medium-sized factory in Guangnan City, the provincial capital.It was the corridor on the second floor of a shoe factory. The air was filled with the unpleasant smell of the workshop. Looking up at the sky, the sky was gloomy.

At that time, the meal was being served, and female workers were not eligible to eat in the cafeteria. There were rectangular aluminum lunch boxes piled up on the dining car. Workshop work.

There is no snow all year round in Guangnan, which is known as "four seasons like spring", but it is still slightly chilly in early February. The boxed lunch with a lid is fine, and there is no trace of heat in the open dish.Li Xiaoman was in charge of cooking. She buried her head in her work when she suddenly saw a box of untouched rice stretched out.This is quite strange, the female workers always eat while queuing up when they get their meals.She raised her head subconsciously, and was shocked to see the sharp eyes of the female worker holding the lunch box, and couldn't help shivering.

However, Li Xiaoman was stunned for a moment when she was frightened. She had been forced to develop double and strong nerves, and it was impossible to scream.Besides, there was no time for her to stand there like a wooden stake in the long queue of female workers waiting for vegetables, so she immediately dug out a spoonful of dead, salty and oil-free cabbage and put it in a certain female worker's lunch box.

This female worker was Qiao Ruoxi, she turned and left without saying a word like the other female workers after cooking.

Li Xiaoman couldn't help but glanced at her again. This person not only didn't eat the lunch box immediately, but also didn't eat the food after ordering.

She thought she must be a newcomer, not yet used to life in the factory.This dilapidated factory is different. The most new workers come in before the Spring Festival. The reason is that the superficial wages are not low, and the actual treatment is too poor. They dare to use various excuses to deduct workers’ wages to a small extent. If the workers can go home for the New Year, they may turn back. Sex is zero.The unscrupulous boss knew it well, so he simply "recruited workers with high salaries" before the year before, so that they could not stop working during the Chinese New Year, and staggered the recruitment time with other factories.After a year, there are always migrant girls and wage earners on the street who have no travel expenses to go home for the Spring Festival, and it is not difficult to trick them into the factory.

Qiao Ruoxi also noticed Li Xiaoman who was different: her eyes were clear and her eyes were well shaped, she should be a pretty girl.

Why use "should"?Because Li Xiaoman was wearing a big mask, the part exposed was limited, her eyebrows were shaved to only two spots, and a ridiculous plaster was pasted on her forehead, like a matchmaker in a TV series.

She wondered if this was to be ugly, or to attract attention?Maybe the latter.In this black factory, there are 15-year-old female workers. Girls in their teens like to follow the trend. Recently, there is a palace costume drama set in the Tang Dynasty. The heroine is just a little bit of makeup.Hmph, that must be the case.Female workers who want to keep up with trends must be relationship workers. No wonder I haven’t seen them. It’s normal for female workers with relationships to only work day shifts.

Qiao Ruoxi has only been in the factory for a week, and she has been working the night shift since she came in. Today is the first day on the day shift.She glanced at the surrounding workers, from fifteen to sixteen to more than 30 years old, all of them looked numb.

People who are overtired look like this. The female workers live in this building and work more than ten hours a day, but the boss has the face to say that it is the legal eight hours!Isn't there a meal time? It's obvious that each meal only takes 15 minutes including going to the bathroom. He said that three meals a day are enough for four hours of rest, which is more ruthless than Zhou's skinning.

Speaking of "three to one compensation" [Note] It is not uncommon for small factories to work overtime, but no matter how irregular it is, the boss will pay overtime pay, and it will not be so black-hearted as to feed the employees pigs and dogs, and don't care if they are full.It's not an unskilled handyman, at least it's making shoes. The state of the employees will affect the quality and quantity of the products, which is not good for the boss.

Qiao Ruoxi doesn't plan to stay any longer, the shoe factory, the materials she comes into contact with on weekdays are bound to be poisonous, but the safety guarantee of the employees in the factory is like Ami Tofu, she doesn't want to suffer from occupational diseases.

One week is enough. She is a reporter who came to dig up materials. This black heart factory grabs black materials at random, and there are many places that flagrantly violate labor laws.She admired herself for being able to stay for so long, uh, actually, she couldn't run out, coming in was like going to jail, she once wanted to take advantage of the weekend to get away, but ended up having to work overtime!According to old workers, this factory works overtime all year round and never takes a break.Moreover, if you come out to work, you must have your ID card, family planning certificate, or marriage certificate, etc. These certificates are all withheld by the factory, and the factory will not let you go. Even if you escape, you will not be able to find a job.And go home to make up for it, where will the travel expenses come from?

Of course she doesn't care, it's all about applying for a new ID card.But it would be better if she didn't have to reissue it. She is not from Guangnan City, she is a famous wandering reporter in this era [Note], and she needs to go back to her original place to reissue her ID card.

The scolding from the canteen master came from the side of the boiling bucket.Qiao Ruoxi acted as if she hadn't heard of it, and slowly ate her meal.Why did she soak the rice in boiling water as soon as she made it?Just to avoid crowding with others.It's not that everyone else is dumber than her, but that the female workers are too hungry and have been in this state of existence for a long time. The first reaction when they get food is to eat it in their mouths.

Look, the bees who finished eating first swarmed to go to the toilet.The toilet space is limited, so it will inevitably be noisy again.

Qiao Ruoxi was more and more slow to prepare meals, and she didn't care about being late, but she hoped to be fired for poor performance.But she didn't dare to confront the boss, it was said that the chief would beat people. "Late" is no big deal, only wages will be deducted.

Suddenly there was a "dang" sound in the corridor, accompanied by a low cry.

Qiao Ruoxi looked up and saw that a female worker who was leaning against the wall to eat had fainted, the lunch box and spoon fell to the ground, and the unfinished food was scattered everywhere.

The workshop director, nicknamed Namowen, ran over and kicked the female worker: "What are you pretending to be dead? I don't want to fuck off and go to the dormitory to lie dead!"

The female worker didn't even hum.Namowen kicked again, pointing at Qiao Ruoxi: "You! Send the slut to the dormitory!"

A certain director will assign Qiao Ruoxi, because she has been staring at this side for a long time, and other female workers have already moved as far away as possible.It is not easy to get the fainted person to the dormitory. The dormitory is on the top floor, and people are carried up and down the stairs, which may cause them to miss the on-duty hour.Moreover, the dormitory is not a bunk for one person, but a bunk for two people. The female workers on the night shift are resting. Where can there be bunks for the unconscious female workers?The sound of opening and closing doors wakes up the sleeping person and causes conflicts.

Qiao Ruoxi didn't dare to disobey the order, and hurriedly put the lunch box on the dining car.

At this moment, Li Xiaoman said: "Director Zhou, I don't think she's quite right, should I take her to the medical room?"

Director Zhou frowned, and smiled again: "Aman has a good heart, what's wrong with her..."

Li Xiaoman interrupted with a smile: "Laziness is also a disease, don't make it an infectious disease."

Director Zhou was slightly stunned, it would be terrible if it was really an infectious disease, so he took out the walkie-talkie and called the security guard.

Li Xiaoman said to Qiao Ruoxi again: "Do me a favor, I'll carry her downstairs, and you can help carry her."

A comatose person is not good at reciting, but Qiao Ruoxi is still strong, so she picked up the female worker and put it on Li Xiaoman's back, holding it with one hand and pressing it with the other, and went to the first floor with great difficulty.In fact, there are elevators, but workers can only use the stairs, and the elevators are used to transport goods.

It was the first time for Qiao Ruoxi to go down to the first floor since she entered this unscrupulous factory.Because workers are not allowed to stray between floors without permission.I remember the day when I first came, no, when I saw the photos of this building, her first feeling was a cage.

What the hell, from the first floor to the top floor, the corridors are all equipped with closed anti-theft nets, or anti-escape nets, to prevent female workers from escaping.Speaking of which, many factories do this. Due to security issues, let alone manufacturers, ordinary citizens install anti-theft nets in their homes to prevent theft.But this building gives people a particularly gloomy feeling. When she looked at the photos, she thought it was a problem with the angle of view and light. After entering, she didn’t believe in ghosts and gods, and she believed in the existence of "resentment". Like the walking dead.

But they said that the two brought the unconscious female worker to the steel gate, and after waiting for a while, a security guard wandered over with an electric baton.

The security guard 23 is a little handsome, but his eyes are not right.He whistled frivolously at Li Xiaoman, then took out the key to open the door, and said, "Holy Mother, when will you comfort me?"

Li Xiaoman smiled lowly: "Brother Lou was just joking, how can I be as crooked as I am?" As she spoke, she looked towards the office building with a strange look on her face.

Lou Baoan turned his head sharply, and immediately snorted coldly: "Xiao Sao X, just pretend, don't think I don't know about you!"

Li Xiaoman nodded: "Yes, none of us know who..."

Before he finished talking, the door opened, and Lou Baoan dragged the unconscious female worker away, really dragging, dragging her collar on the ground.

Qiao Ruoxi was afraid that she would get angry and dare not look at it, so she lowered her eyes and asked, "Are you going to the medical room?"

Li Xiaoman didn't say anything, she would definitely go, she had to make sure if she had leukemia, if so, she should be fired as soon as possible while she was still alive.If it is not cured by taking some medicine again, then I will definitely stay, and the wages will be deducted every month until nothing is paid. Maybe I will still owe the boss money.Why can't many female workers go home for the New Year?It is because of debts.

Qiao Ruoxi was a little disappointed. She wanted to take the opportunity to establish a relationship with Aman, but she knew that this girl had a higher degree of freedom than a female worker, so she might be able to make a call to her "relatives" for her.But he didn't talk to her at all, and if she said a few more words, maybe this seemingly kind girl would complain, she didn't want to be beaten, today Director Zhou kicked the unconscious female worker, it was not light.hateful! MD doesn't treat female workers as human beings, and her little conscience will never be disturbed if she kills this black-hearted factory.

Grinding her teeth, she said goodbye with a smile, and went upstairs first, thinking that a good girl would not suffer in front of her eyes, since she was not sure of her successful escape, she should stay obediently for a month, and wait for her colleagues to come and get her.

Li Xiaoman frowned slightly, staring at the back of a certain female worker and murmured: If she speaks Mandarin so well, she might not be a migrant girl from the countryside.If a girl in the city suffers this kind of punishment, will she make trouble after she gets away?Let's make a fuss!The bigger the noise, the better!The black-hearted boss should go bankrupt and go to jail!

The author has something to say: three to one supplement: refers to processing with supplied materials, processing with supplied samples, assembly with supplied parts and compensation trade.The enterprise structure is that foreign businessmen provide equipment (including foreign investment to build factories), raw materials, incoming samples, and are responsible for the export of all products, while Chinese enterprises provide land, factory buildings and labor.It was first seen in the early stage of reform and opening up, and it blossomed everywhere in the 90s.Both Chinese and foreign parties do not account in the name of the "three to one supplement" enterprise, but keep their own accounts and settle the payment by workers.Some unscrupulous bosses took advantage of policy loopholes, irregular management, and cruelty to employees, which caused widespread media reports.I have to say that the black heart factory deserves its closure!

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Wandering reporter: a special product of the 90s.At that time, the media was a business establishment, and there was a strict limit on the number of staff on the staff, which did not adapt to the development of the times, so contract reporters appeared.Those who sign long-term contracts are no different from normal editors and reporters except that they are not in the establishment.The other is to just lead an interview assignment from the media, usually without a contract, and only read manuscripts.This kind of interview task is either very labor-intensive and cannot be afforded by the limited staff of the media; or it is risky and troublesome if something happens to the staff.The cannon fodder's aunt worked as a high-risk wandering reporter for several years, and then became a staff member.

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